In the flower beds, coneflowers such as echinacea and rudbeckia turn into food as the blooms go to seed this time of year.

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Liking color, perhaps to brighten the dark mood of living on a family compound with overbearing in-laws, she filled flower beds with blooms.

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Hovering around city parks and flower beds are masked bees, miner bees, mason bees, plasterer bees, cuckoo bees, leafcutter bees, horned bees, and at least 49 species of sweat bees.

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So still in the flower beds, so pale.

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There are herbs growing in flower boxes at the bus stop, raspberry canes on waste land, cabbages in the flower beds at the local park - and even beans between the graves in the local cemetery.

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To illustrate his ideas he turned a patch of grass near a housing estate in South London into such a garden, inspired by the flower beds at Buckingham Palace, and incorporating beans, salads and many other foodstuffs.

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The nearly 20-year-old has been living with her parents in a handsome single-family home in Schwarzkollm, a village on the outskirts of Hoyerswerda with old farm houses, front yards with flower beds and a new neighborhood in which houses sprang up one after the other in a ring.

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Reynolds has also received permission to plant tiger lilies, poppies or whatever other flower he wants in the beds below his tower block in Southwark.

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